YA-- Superbly researched, compiled, and illustrated, this book takes readers into the world of the rainforests. Newman first shows their beauty by explaining how intricately life exists within them. Next, he explains how the rainforests are being ravaged by the carelessness and thoughtlessness of civilization and the consequences of these actions. Yet he does not leave readers without suggestions for remedying the deforestation of the Earth; in the last section he offers solutions that seem viable and necessary. Charts, diagrams, and graphs and give information, as do the more than 200 magnificent full-color photographs. Excellent, insightful, and much needed.
- Jeannet M. Lippencott, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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Newman, a science writer and conservationist, writes with authority based on his many years of travel in tropical forests around the world. His descriptions of rain forest ecology and the economic factors bringing about rain forest destruction are detailed and well researched. His last chapter concerns the faint gleams of hope for preservation embodied in the focus of world consciousness and changing technology. The examples of the 300 color photographs promised for the finished book were dramatic and eye-catching and enhanced the rather pedantic text. While this is a good supplementary text on this subject, a more readable rain forest book is John Nichol's The Mighty Rain Forest ( LJ 6/15/90). See also Scott Lewis's The Rainforest Book , reviewed in this issue, above.--Ed.
- Eleanor Maass, Maass Assocs., New Milford, Pa.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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